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I am enclosing a copy of my Diplomatic Passport and/or a letter from my employer which includes my employee identification number. You must check off one of the following: NAME. □ U.S. Delivery I I U.S. Port Delivery for and Registration '—' Overseas Shipment ADDRESS. CITY Mail this registration form and accompanying support documents to: COUNTRY. Ford Diplomatic Sales Program Headquarters P.O. Box 1109 PHONE NUMBER ( Bloomfield Hills, MI 48303-1109 or, fax the information to us at (313) 350-1154 FAX/TELEX NUMBER | Clements & Company sends warm holiday greetings to our American Foreign Service friends all over the world. CHRISTMAS 1993 |C E * L D V4 CLEMENTS COMPANY WHY NOT THE BEST? The system through which our political leadership selects people to head 162 U.S. diplomatic missions around the world is one of the last relics of the archaic AMERICAN FOREIGN nineteenth-century spoils system. It is a system that all too often serves not the SERVICE ASSOCIATION country's need for effective representation abroad, but rather the politicians' need Governing Board President: F.A. (TEX) HARRIS to reward people for political loyalty or financial generosity, while passing over State Vice President: TODD STEWART professionals with enormous knowledge and unique experience. AID Vice President: JOHN A. PATTERSON USIA Vice President: RAZVIGOR BAZALA While AFSA's raison d'etre is to safeguard the integrity of the Foreign Retiree Vice President: DONALD R. NORLAND Service, we do not oppose all political appointees on principle. To do so would be Secretary: CATHERINE BARRY Treasurer: ANNE WOODS PATTERSON naive and self-defeating. In fact, our country and we ourselves benefit from some State Representatives: CHRISTINE FULENA infusion into American diplomacy of different talents and perspectives from the DENNIS KUX JOHN MARIZ worlds of business, academia, or politics. But the overriding principle guiding the SUE SAARNIO DAVID H. SHINN ambassadorial selection process must be: "Why not the best?" AID Representatives LEE ANN ROSS The 1980 Foreign Service Act has it right: an ambassador "should possess JAMES R. WASHINGTON USIA Representative: BRUCE W[ IARTON clearly demonstrated competence to perform the duties of a chief of mission, Retired Representatives KATHRYN CLARK-BOl RNE SAMUEL F. HART including . useful knowledge of the language . and understanding of the M. BRUCE HIRSHORN history, the culture, the economic and political institutions, and the interests of that EDWARD L. PECK FAS Representative: MAGGIE DOWLING country. Contributions to political campaigns should not be a factor." PCS Representative: BARRY FRIEDMAN Nevertheless, we all know that too many people are nominated as Staff ambassadors only because they, their spouses, their children, and their friends have Executive Director: SUSAN REARDON Busi,ness Department made and/or raised lavish financial contributions to political campaigns. Controller. CATHY FREGELETTE The president is embarked on a major campaign to reinvent the federal Office Manager JUDY SHINN Executive Assistant MEIKE MEISSNER government. AFSA is acting as a full partner with the foreign-affairs agencies' USIA Office Manager. PETER GAASERl 'D leadership to streamline our operations, eliminate excessive bureaucracy, prioritize Accounting Assistant: SHEREE E. BEANE Administrative Assistants: DIANNA DUN BRACK our programs, and do what counts better with less. But while the reinventing- MICHAEL DAILEY government agenda is being conscientiously addressed within the agencies, when Labor Management Genera! Counsel. SHARON PAPP it comes to selecting chiefs of mission abroad, it's business as usual. Director. JAMES YORKE At least three elements of contemporary diplomacy render the appointment Staff Attorney: COLLEEN FALLON Representative: Jt LIE SMITHLINE of inexperienced and unqualified ambassadors harmful to our national interests: Lcuv Clerks: EDWIN GANT A Complexity The vast reach of our international concerns, amplified by instant MEGAN CHUNG Member Services communications, has made the job of an ambassador far more complex than ever. Acting Director: LORI DEC In virtually every country, we have significant interests and objectives, from trade Director: JANET HEDRICK Representative: NORAJANE MtiNTYRE promotion and military aid to labor and environment. That's a full plate for even Grievance Counselors: DEREK TERRELL the most seasoned professional; for an amateur it is well-nigh indigestible. JENNY NOYES Efficiency In times past, when our missions abroad were relatively few and Professional Issues: RICHARD S. THOMPSON Retiree Liaison. WARD THOMPSON more generously staffed, the FS staff could afford to carry a neophyte envoy for Congressional Liaison: RICK WEISS a year or more while he or she learned the ropes. No more. In a two-year period Scholarship when we have opened nearly 20 new embassies abroad, the State Department's Coordinator and budget has been cut by 10 percent, with more cuts to come. No longer can our Systems Administrator THERESA AURRICHIO Speakers Bureau and embassies be like a palanquin, in which the ambassador is carried through his tour International Associates. GIL KULICK of duty by the country team. Today’s embassy must be an eight-oar shell, in which Conferences: JOHN J. HARTER the ambassador not only calls the stroke, but also pulls his or her weight. Tift* .American Foreign Service Association, founded in 1924. is the professional association of the Foreign Service and the official represen¬ Accountability For every Harriman or Bruce the spoils system has produced, tative of all Foreign Service employees in the Department of State, and the United States Irtfonnation Agency and the Agency for International it has sent abroad many envoys who have truly been disasters: no-shows, drunks, Development under the tenns of the Foreign Service Act of 1980. Active (>r Retired membership ir. AFSA is open to all current < >r retired ernplt>yees playboys, drug abusers. Between these extremes are two large categories: those of the U.S. foreign affairs agencies. Asscxiate membership is open to persons liaving an interest in or close association with the Foreign Service. who absorb the retraining adequately enough to do a creditable job after a while; Annual dues: Active Members—$85-188; Retired Memliers—$45-62; Associate Members—$50. .All AFSA members are memliers of the Foreign and those who effectively fail but "stay out of the way." There must be a system Service Club. Please note: AFSA dues and Legislative Action Fund donations may lx* deductible as an ordinary and necessary business of performance accountability for both career and political appointees. We can't expense for federal income tax purposes. Scholarship and AFSA Fund donations ate deductible as charitable contributions. afford the marginal performers who are currently protected by the spoils system. AMFRXAN FORTH A Stuviu ASSOCIATION. 2101E Street NAY. Washington. D.C. 20037. Executive offices, membership, professional issues, scholarship The core question of how we choose American leadership abroad must be programs, insurance programs. JOURNAL offices: (202) 338-4045. Gov¬ erning Board, standing committees, general counsel, labor-management high on the "reinventing government" agenda. Our leaders have to be able to say relations, memlier sen ices, grievances: (202) (>47-8160 • FAX: (202 )(w7- that they have changed the way they choose our ambassadors—and that they are 0265 • USIA Member Services (202 ) 401-6405 • Foreign Service Club (202) 338-5730. choosing the best. —TEX HARRIS 2 • FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL • DECEMBER 1993 VOL. 70, NO. 12 DECEMBER 1993 JOURNAL Editorial Board Chairman BRANDON GROVE JANET BOGUE KATHLEEN BRION JOHN ERIKSSON PHYLLIS DICHTF.R-FORBES SUSAN KEOGH-FISHER DANIEL O. NEWBERRY DONALD R. NORLAND PHYLLIS OAKLEY ROBERT TOTH Changing China 24 Women’s Rights 31 HANS N. TUCH FEATURES “The Independent Voice of the
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